Us Quotes

Every single one of us is the descendant of a go-getter. Of dreamers and of believers.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

It's true that America can't solve every problem, but I don't know of any major problem in the world that can be solved without us.

Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

I would caution all of us or I would remind all of us that any candidate that we support, they are going to be flawed.

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.